Page 219. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and date from note in ink below image, on mounting page., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of text., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Gaming-table -- Male costume, 1736 -- Female costume, 1736 -- Table settings -- Furniture., Folded to 23.1 x 25 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 219 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
The street scene in Act V of The tragedy of Jane Shore: A dying Jane Shore, played by Sarah Siddons, is held by Bellmour and Dumont. A towering archway is seen in the background
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Artist from local card catalog record., and Date from contemporary prints depicting Sarah Siddons in the role of Jane Shore.
Subject (Name):
Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831 and Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718.
Title assigned by cataloger., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Two fashionably dressed women flee a charging bull; one woman lies face down in the grass of Hyde Park as gentlemen and the bull's owner try to subdue the animal with sticks
Description:
Title and imprint supplied in a contemporary hand on mounting below image., Signed Lepagelet in image who was active in Paris, so ms. note seems questionable., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint?, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 19 x 25 cm.
Design consists of 4 strips of figures engaged in various activities. Row 1: A dairy maid milking a cow; a mother and child beside a crib; a couple conversing; a musician with flute and drum; two women and a man around a tea table with a maid making tea. Row 2: A couple conversing; a man in stocks getting whipped; a woman with a basket on her head behind a lady with a fan; a boy with a book beside a cobbler, a dog at his feet; a hunter on horseback with a hunting dog. Row 3: An artist painting a portrait of a woman; an old woman seated with a boy at her feet, learning to read; two men; a man with a horn and dancing dog; a Scot in tartan looking at a woman with a yoke on her shoulders support two pails. Row 4: A trainer with a performing bear and dog; a vendor with an urn; a woman with a cart of apples; a boy with a toy hoop; a woman feeding her hogs and piglet as a boy looks on.
Description:
Title devised by curator., Imprint burnished from plate., Dated by costume., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Vryheyt.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Occupations, Trainged animals, and Stocks (Punishment).
Probably a view of a section of St. Martin-in-the-Fields submitted by Sir James Thornhill for the 1720-1721 St. Martin-in-the-Fields project
Description:
Title devised by curator., Questionable attribution to Sir James Thornhill., Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Church : Westminster, London, England)
Drawings B87 no. 30 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 5
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A game of billiards is being played on a table, one corner of which only is visible, so curiously elongated that it gives the impression of a triangular table. The two players stand by the corner of the table, the one who is about to make a stroke appears from his leanness, frogged coat, and long pigtail queue to be a Frenchman; he leans over the table in profile to the left, wearing pince-nez. His opponent watches him, standing on top-toe, his cue held over his left shoulder, his face screwed up in anxiety; he wears a bag-wig. A number of spectators look on with expressions of amusement or concern: on the right two men stand together grinning; on the left a man watches open-mouthed; behind the table a man watches with an expression of alarm, another takes cover behind him with a grin; a small boy stands beside them. In the foreground are two dogs, one, a greyhound, stands between the player's legs. On the wall behind the table is a rack of cues and two clock-faced scoring boards both pointing to the figure X. On the right is a door, on the left a small casement window. Pictures and prints decorate the wall (left to right): a print of Wilkes (bust) with two caps of liberty; a print of a nymph and satyr; a print of a man seated, three quarter length; a print of a man and woman whole-length; two framed landscapes
Description:
Title from local card catalogue. and Published stipple engraving: no. 5803 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.